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Thursday, April 17, 2008

Paperback Writer Answers All Your Writin' Questions

It's been a while since I checked in on Lynn Viehl, the Paperback Writer. This Friday's post is recycled, but is a mother lode of excellent advice for fiction writer types. Ms. Viehl is that rarity in the publishing world: a successful fiction writer who makes a (very comfortable, by my standards) living at her craft. If she retains any dewy-eyed illusions about publishing, I've yet to spot them. But she does have an admirable and infectious "can-do" attitude which seems to have been strengthened by her "have-done" history.